The Breakfast Index Keeps Rising as Milk, Sausage Prices Jump
- Total cost of a full English breakfast climbs above £32
- More families rely on charity, borrowing to meet food bills
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Serving up a full English breakfast is growing ever more expensive for Britons as higher grocery prices add to the squeeze on household budgets.
Bloomberg’s monthly Breakfast Index shows the price of the ingredients in a traditional fry-up rose by an average of more than 17% from a year ago. Ingredient costs rose 1.1% in August from July, a slightly smaller increase than in recent months.